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Razing of Old Speed Home Will Remove Historic
Cit^r Landmark [at Grawfordsville,
Montgomery County].
( From The Jou3?nal^^Review, Grawfordsville, Indiana, December 18, 1934. ) Completion of the rasing of the old Speed Home, which has been standing on f/hat is .now the corner of
Grant avenue and Horth street in the north part of this city for approximately a hundred years will remove an ancient and widely-known landmark.
Probably the county^s last link with irhat was once the "underground railway," a mysterious means of trans¬ portation for fugitive negro slaves, the home Y/as recent¬ ly sold, to B. A. Jolley, a grocer, whose store is situated just across the street, and the house is being to^n down s6 that some of the lumber may be employed for another structure—-and the rest for firewood.
The lot where the home is located is the property of the Jennison heirs, most of ??hom now live in Ohio.
the house has been in a decaying condition for years and it was decided b3'- the heirs to arrange for its disposal in order to clear the lot for something else to be built there* William Gronin and his faniiljr were the last persons to reside in the historic home and after moving from the house a few weeks ago !&% Cronin was one of tbiTee men employed to tear the venerable structure down.

160
Razing of Old Speed Home Will Remove Historic
Cit^r Landmark [at Grawfordsville,
Montgomery County].
( From The Jou3?nal^^Review, Grawfordsville, Indiana, December 18, 1934. ) Completion of the rasing of the old Speed Home, which has been standing on f/hat is .now the corner of
Grant avenue and Horth street in the north part of this city for approximately a hundred years will remove an ancient and widely-known landmark.
Probably the county^s last link with irhat was once the "underground railway," a mysterious means of trans¬ portation for fugitive negro slaves, the home Y/as recent¬ ly sold, to B. A. Jolley, a grocer, whose store is situated just across the street, and the house is being to^n down s6 that some of the lumber may be employed for another structure—-and the rest for firewood.
The lot where the home is located is the property of the Jennison heirs, most of ??hom now live in Ohio.
the house has been in a decaying condition for years and it was decided b3'- the heirs to arrange for its disposal in order to clear the lot for something else to be built there* William Gronin and his faniiljr were the last persons to reside in the historic home and after moving from the house a few weeks ago !&% Cronin was one of tbiTee men employed to tear the venerable structure down.